Daddy's Birthday at Magic Kingdom

Since Andy got in free for his birthday, we decided to go to Magic Kingdom for the day. Pretty soon we will start having to pay for all five of us, so might as well go while we can! The boys had a great time and loved the trains (including the monorail, tram, the people mover in tomorrowland, etc.). It was a really great time and Canyon thinks that his daddy had the best birthday ever!!!!! (Remember when we had daddy's birthday at Disney World?)

Oh, and I didn't charge the camera, so it died early in the day...UGH!!!!

Kids Say...

While I'm thinking about it, I wanted to post a few of the funny things the boys have said lately.



Canyon

-I gave him some chocolate candy in the car and he had chocolate all over his hands. I made a comment about how I had no napkins or wipes to clean him up and he just said "Don't worry Mommy, I can just taste it off!" I thought it was the cutest thing!

-The other night, he was laying with me in bed. I was reading The Chocolate War, which has a character named Carter. I pointed to the name Carter and ask him what it said and he said Conner first, then Carter. I continued reading, and he pointed out a question mark. He said something about how he found a "mystery" and it has "a c with a line and a polka dot". I thought it was too funny. I asked him where he learned this and he quickly said Mickey Mouse (the mystery mouskatool is a question mark).

Conner

-The boys both have their "tee-tee". They both got attached to these "uncute" little bear blankie things that were once yellow. They have carried them around since they were little bity. So Carter has started chewing on his, which Conner hates when he picks up Carter's wet tee-tee, and Carter usually gets them both wet and nasty. So I've had to wash them as much as possible. Every time they come out of the dryer, it is a big deal, and Conner will smell it over and over and say "tastes good"!

More to come...

No Training Wheels!

I had to get this on today so Nana and Granny could see how great Canyon did on his bike. We have been encouraging him to try to ride without his training wheels and he has been very against it. Well, today he wanted to take the training wheels off, so daddy did. A couple of neighbor boys were outside playing with him, and he was having so much fun I don't think he realized that he was doing it! But he just rode and rode and rode all afternoon and had the greatest time and had the biggest smile on his face! So sweet!!!!

Treasure Island

A few weeks ago, we went to the beach with Johnna, Aubrie, Papaw, Granny, and Nana. It was pretty chilly, so we didn't bring our swim trunks, just the sand toys.

Didn't take long for everyone to get wet... (the water was FREEZING, but Johnna got in because she said it was warm-crazy Kentucky people!!)

Canyon's pants wouldn't stay up...

Aubrie digging in the sand...

We all dug holes in the sand and tried to build some sand castles. Carter and Conner mostly just wanted to step on the sand castles.

And afterwards, we tried to get everyone dressed, but Carter just wanted to run away!!! He didn't care who saw, either...

ICE! at Gaylord Palms

Today we all went to ICE! at Gaylord Palms in Orlando. Our wonderful friends, Steve and Emily, gave us tickets to ICE! for Christmas and we decided to make a family day of it since my cousin Johnna and her daughter Aubrie were in town from Kentucky. So, my family of five, my mom, my papaw and granny, and Johnna and Aubrie all went to Central Florida to spend the day in a brisk 9 degree ice exhibit.

An ice cave...

Johnna went down the ice slide!

Conner and Carter went down the slide, too. They layed down flat on their backs. It was too funny! Too bad my SLOW camera didn't get it.

Not sure who this is??

This was a neat little ice tunnel.

Conner loved Santa, I thought he looked a bit scary...

So cute in his little parka!

Conner loved this -- NEMO!!!!

Conner was all about posing for pictures. Where is Carter you ask?? Probably somewhere screaming for Nana to hold him.

Johnna and Aubrie...

A family of snowmen...

Bundling everyone up...

There's Carter! With Nana, of course.

Conner and Carter would have preferred to watch the FREE train display...

Canyon and Aubrie. She's more than 2 years older than he is!!! Canyon loves playing with her!

The boys...

Hot Cocoa for everyone!!!

Also, my granny fell while we were walking through ICE! and hit her face on a rail. Please say a prayer for her that won't get any worse.

Good Night!!!

Carter in Trouble AGAIN!!!

This is what he does to me!!! I can't leave him alone for five seconds!!!
And look at that face, like "Mom, I'm not finished with my masterpiece, give me the marker back!!!"

Trip to Georgia!!

I am excited to get caught up on this thing. I pretty much finished my homework about an hour ago, so I feel like I can do anything!!

This trip was mid-October. The other half of the Andersons went to visit with their family and they invited us to join them. Of course, this sounds much easier than it is. The twins and cousin Sidney did a lot of crying and screaming. But they did have a great time playing outside. It was much colder on the mountain than we anticipated, so we didn't stay outside too too much. Poor Canyon doesn't even have a jacket heavier than a sweatshirt, so I know he was freezing. Anyways, here are some pictures from our long weekend!!!

Canyon wanted me to take lots of pictures of him and rocket...

The deck was a little scary...

They thought it was funny to slide down the hills...
And Georgia doesn't have regular dirt, they have RED CLAY--What a mess!!!

They loved to just run, run, run!!!

Yep, that's all of us on the top bunk of bunk beds...

We tried to get pictures of all the kids together, it didn't work...

More running...

More pictures with rocket...

The family by the fire (It was freezing, but the boys stayed out til we made them go in!)

Some weird thing that the kids weren't supposed to play near, but it was like a magnet...

Just a swingin...

Carter and Sidney...